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1960 Technology & Gadgets

The Pill

Enovil 10, the first birth control pill went on sale in Skokie, Ilinois for 50 cents a day.

The Answering Machine

Kazuo Hashimoto Invents the Ansafone sold in the USA as an Automatic Telephone Answering Machine

Weather Satellite

The United States launches the first weather satellite, TIROS-1.

Communications Satellite 

AT&T Labs launched Echo, a giant balloon to bounce signals between ground based receivers.

The Copy Machine

The Rank Xerox Standard 1385 copying machine goes to market

1960 Toys & Gadgets

Chatty Cathy

First popular talking doll, spoke 11 random phrases at the pull of a string. The original voice was June Foray who also did the voice of Rocket J. Squirrel in the Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons

The Brits successfully enter the American toy market with Legos.

Etch-a-Sketch

High tech toy from France

More Gadgets

The Modem

Bell Telephone Laboratories invent the modem using the binary code patented by Jean-Emile Baudot in 1874.

The Laser

Theodore Maiman uses a synthetic ruby to build first true laser.

Teflon Non-sticking cookware goes on sale at Macy's in New York

The ATM

The Hologram

Heart Pacemaker